Our large-scale and high-impact demonstration projects seek to test out new ideas for improving the quality of healthcare. Our aim is to take the best ideas – those that we can prove really make a difference to improving the quality and safety of patient care – and encourage uptake throughout the NHS.
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Co-creating Health
Hundreds of studies have shown that supporting self-management can lead to dramatically improved outcomes for patients. Despite this, it remains at the periphery of most health services. This self-management initiative aims to transform healthcare for people with long-term conditions.
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Engaging with Quality Initiative
The Engaging with Quality Initiative aims to help healthcare professionals close the gap between current and best practice across clinical services.
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Engaging with Quality in Primary Care
This scheme is funding nine projects to engage primary care clinicians in quality improvement projects and, by doing so, increase capacity for improvements in clinical quality in primary care in the UK.
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Safer Patients Initiative
Around one in ten patients in hospital experience an incident which puts their safety at risk, and about half of these could have been prevented. This initiative was set up address this problem and find ways of making hospitals safer for patients.
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Safer Clinical Systems
Safer Clinical Systems launched in October 2008. The programme will test and demonstrate ways to improve healthcare systems or processes to systematically improve patient safety.